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The Retirement Challenge

The Retirement Challenge

Martin Neil Baily; Benjamin H. Harris

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2023
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A comprehensive plan from two leading experts on how to fix America's outdated retirement system America's retirement system has serious problems. While it works well for some retirees, millions of others don't have the sound retirement they have worked decades to secure. Roughly 40 percent of today's $4 trillion federal budget is devoted to supporting retirees, which will grow to roughly half over the next decade-imperiling the sustainability of the whole system. The system is out of date. It reflects the America of a bygone age--an era in which company or union pensions provided middle-class families a decent standard of living in retirement. In America today, however, private pensions have mostly disappeared, Social Security is threatened to go insolvent, people are living longer, and health care costs continue to rise. Poorer retirees now must choose between buying enough to eat and their prescription drugs. In The Retirement Challenge, influential former White House economists Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris explore America's outdated retirement system and explain how improving retirement requires changes by families, employers, and policymakers alike. Households need to save more, get smarter about their finances, and trade part of their 401(k) balances for insurance products. Companies need to take a more active role in their workers' retirements. And lawmakers need to amend the tax code, Social Security, and a host of other programs. Despite today's wide political divide, policymakers from both parties can come together around changes that will promote a stable retirement. This book shows that these changes do not represent a radical overhaul. If families, businesses, and policymakers do their part, everyone-current retirees and future generations-can enjoy a much more secure and prosperous retirement.
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Democracy in America?

Democracy in America?

Page Benjamin I.; Gilens Martin

University of Chicago Press
2017
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America faces daunting problems stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. Yet the government consistently ignores the needs of its citizens, paying attention instead to donors and organized interests. Real issues are held hostage to demagoguery, partisanship beats practicality, and trust in government withers along with the social safety net. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran political observers Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens marshal an unprecedented array of evidence to show that while other countries have responded to a rapidly changing economy by helping people who've been left behind, the United States has failed to do so. Instead, we have actually exacerbated inequality, enriching corporations and the wealthy while leaving ordinary citizens to fend for themselves. What's the solution? More democracy. More opportunity for citizens to shape what their government does. To repair our democracy, Page and Gilens argue, we must change the way we choose candidates and conduct our elections, reform our governing institutions, and curb the power of money in politics. By doing so, we can reduce polarization and gridlock, address pressing challenges, and enact policies that truly reflect the interests of average Americans. This book presents a damning indictment. But the situation is far from hopeless. With increased democratic participation as their guide, Page and Gilens lay out a set of proposals, Page and Gilens lay out a set of proposals that would boost citizen participation, curb the power of money, and democratize the House and Senate. The only certainty is that inaction is not an option. Now is the time to act to restore and extend American democracy.
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Sterkere; fra trent til veltrent

Sterkere; fra trent til veltrent

Martin Norum; Benjamin Christensen

Gyldendal
2017
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Har du trent styrke en stund, men ikke fått de resultatene du vil ha? For å komme videre kreves det målrettet trening over tid, og enda viktigere: riktig trening over tid. Jo bedre trent du er, desto viktigere er detaljene, både når det gjelder valg av øvelser, teknikk, kosthold og treningsprogram.Denne inspirerende og instruktive treningsboka gir deg svarene, uavhengig av hvilket nivå du er på. De to treningsekspertene Christensen og Norum legger stor vekt på konkrete råd som du umiddelbart kan ta i bruk. De bygger på moderne forskning om trening så vel som sine egne erfaringer gjennom tusenvis av PT- timer.Boka inneholder tre essensielle redskaper for at du skal lykkes: Kostholdsplanleggeren, Teknikkveilederen og Treningsplanleggeren. Ved å bruke disse vil du få det resultatet du ønsker deg.«Boken vil være et nyttig verktøy for alle som interesserer seg for å optimalisere resultater innen styrketrening – fra hobbymosjonisten til den mer seriøse, samt fagpersoner som trenger en oppdatering eller oppsummering på området.»Ida Marie Pedersen, Norsk Tidsskrift for Ernæring nr 2/2017«Boken vil være et nyttig verktøy for alle som interesserer seg for å optimalisere resultater innen styrketrening – fra hobbymosjonisten til den mer seriøse, samt fagpersoner som trenger en oppdatering eller oppsummering på området.»Ida Marie Pedersen, Norsk Tidsskrift for Ernæring nr 2/2017
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Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Benjamin K. Sovacool; Ira Martina Drupady

Routledge
2016
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This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world. Through an in-depth exploration of case studies in Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka, the authors highlight the applicability of different approaches and technologies and illuminates how household and commercial innovations occur (or fail to occur) within particular energy governance regimes. It also, uniquely, explores successful case studies alongside failures or "worst practice" examples that are often just as revealing as those that met their targets. Based on these successes and failures, the book presents twelve salient lessons for policymakers and practitioners wishing to expand energy access and raise standards of living in some of the world's poorest communities. It also develops an innovative framework consisting of 42 distinct factors that explain why some energy development interventions accomplish all of their goals while others languish to achieve any.
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Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Energy Access, Poverty, and Development

Benjamin K. Sovacool; Ira Martina Drupady

Ashgate Publishing Limited
2012
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This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world. Through an in-depth exploration of case studies in Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka, the authors highlight the applicability of different approaches and technologies and illuminates how household and commercial innovations occur (or fail to occur) within particular energy governance regimes. It also, uniquely, explores successful case studies alongside failures or "worst practice" examples that are often just as revealing as those that met their targets. Based on these successes and failures, the book presents twelve salient lessons for policymakers and practitioners wishing to expand energy access and raise standards of living in some of the world's poorest communities. It also develops an innovative framework consisting of 42 distinct factors that explain why some energy development interventions accomplish all of their goals while others languish to achieve any.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Martin J. Lubetsky; Benjamin L. Handen; John J. McGonigle

Oxford University Press Inc
2011
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Autism Spectrum Disorder highlights current key topics for this complex and challenging developmental neurobiological disorder. In a very practical and concise manner, the reader will find a state-of-the-science review combining key factual knowledge with practical clinical considerations. Written in a user-friendly fashion, this text provides key fact boxes, summary questions, and references for further readings to enhance understanding. This invaluable book incorporates practical clinical knowledge within a didactic framework to provide a comprehensive overview of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) across the lifespan.
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Answer Set Solving in Practice

Answer Set Solving in Practice

Martin Gebser; Roland Kaminski; Benjamin Kaufmann; Torsten Schaub

Springer International Publishing AG
2012
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Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative problem solving approach, initially tailored to modeling problems in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR). More recently, its attractive combination of a rich yet simple modeling language with high-performance solving capacities has sparked interest in many other areas even beyond KRR. This book presents a practical introduction to ASP, aiming at using ASP languages and systems for solving application problems. Starting from the essential formal foundations, it introduces ASP's solving technology, modeling language and methodology, while illustrating the overall solving process by practical examples. Table of Contents: List of Figures / List of Tables / Motivation / Introduction / Basic modeling / Grounding / Characterizations / Solving / Systems / Advanced modeling / Conclusions
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